Hello Hello.
Meggy here.
Good-ness its been a long week. I wasnt sure I would make it to Friday. My brain, my body, and my spirit are spent. Im trying to think of whats been going on since my last post....
I fired the vice prez which made me rather popular with the rest of the class. Apparently they had the same disdain for him that I did lol. What else.. Oh. I went bowling last weekend with JTHT, Andi, and the clowns. I wasn't quite the bowler I remembered myself being but I still had a pretty solid performance and a nice little night away from stress. Not too much else exciting has been happening. Just the usual sleep, class, study, repeat. I was suppose to have an EMT exam yesterday but it was moved to Tuesday which makes next week a monster. EMT exam on tuesday over 7 chapters and my first fire exam over everything we've covered since january 19th (like 12 chapters) SO.. this means that I get to spend my weekend reading (blah) But its ok...it will make next week go by way more faster-like.
THEN...after the week from hell....its time for.....drum roll please
Rusty MuthaFu**in Sower's birthday 2011!!!! Im pretty freakin excited. I miss my friends so much and I will be so ready for a night out...Im hopeful for some vintage B shenanigans.
I had to finally break down and ask my parents to lend me some money. :-/ I really didnt want to but I was left with no choice. I still have a few weeks before the rest of my loan is disbursed and babygirl has gotta pay the bills. So thankfully my parents are amazing and have been nothing but accommodating while Ive been in school...and I eat every bit of food in the house and they never say a word lol. Its always cute when my dad and I are pouring our coffee together at 5am. (Im such a daddy's girl deep down :)
Anyway....sorry for the totally random blog post this time around. Its a pretty accurate reflection of how my mind is currently functioning though. Off to cuddle with my books for a bit and then SLEEP.
Love
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Today was a good day (...in my Ice Cube voice)
Hiiiiiii.......
I hope everyone is doing well.
My week is has been really good. Long as usual but really good. I think I finally got Reese feeling better. I took her to the vet...which sucked super hard. They didnt really tell me anything and Reese was a total psycho-spaz the whole time we were there. They gave her some dewormer to be safe and then bent us over with the bill. She wasn't eating her puppy food...only a few bites all day so I think she ended up vomiting early in the mornings from her stomach churning around on itself. I took her off the puppy food and promoted her to a natural adult dog food for dogs with sensitive stomachs. She ate that shit right up and seems to be doing much better....and just in time, I couldn't handle her hurling every morning at 3am anymore.
A good week so far at school as well...academically I'm am still holding strong...averaging like 97% on my quizzes I think. And although our quizzes are really easy its still nice to ball out on them. Monday we had to do our first PT assessment. It consisted of a timed mile and a half run, push ups and sit ups. We ran the mile and a half on the track; which when your legs are as short as mine is total torture but I will take 6 track laps outside over 18 laps inside our academy building. We are required to pass the run in under 13 minutes so I was pretty stoked when I crushed that time finishing in 11:27... and I dont know if you have ever seen a midget run but 11:27 is a pretty solid time. (and better than quite a few of the boys) After the run we went back to the gym to do out push ups and sit ups. We had a minute to do as many push ups as possible, the same with sit ups. The boys had to do their push ups down enough for their chest to touch to a persons fist who was placed under them... us chickies had to do them down enough for our chin to touch a fist on the ground (not that my boobs are big enough to create an advantage lol) We only had to do 35 to be considered passing so I wasn't worried about it. I smoked out 64... my PT instructor made a huge deal about it... mostly to make the guys who could only do 15 (yeah we actually had a guy only do 15) look stupid. Sit ups were cake... Im not even sure how many I did.. enough to pass. SO... long story long monday was good, I was really happy to start my week that way.
Tuesday was EMT class. BORING. Thats all about that.
Our first CPAT was today. I was pretty pumped about doing it so I was bright eyed and bushy tailed at 5am. Get to school all ready to own it, only to find out that the gym was taken and we would have to wait until after 1 o'clock. Awesome. I had to help proctor the rest of the class member's tests which gave me another 3 hours to watch them all go through it...watching some of the guys struggle was slowing draining my confidence. The two other girls in my class went before me, neither one of them passed...great. So then its finally my turn to go. My instructor reminds me Im the class president and I need to represent (thanks for the added pressure, because the pressure from myself and classmates wasnt enough) I will try to explain this test as well as possible without writing a novel.
Station one is a 3:20sec walk on the stair stepper while wearing a 50lbs weighted vest and 25lbs of added weight. (this was a LONG three and half minutes) then the 25lbs of added weight are removed and you complete the remainder of the test with the 50lbs vest on.
Between every station you must walk 85ft
Station two is the hose drag. You must grab the nozzle and hose (150ft of hose) over your shoulder, and run down and around the barrel. Then you have to take a knee and pull, hand over hand, another 50ft of hose.
Walk 85ft
Station three you have to pick up a chain saw and rotary saw from a shelf and carry it down around the barrel and put them back on the shelf.
Walk 85ft
Station four is the ladder raise. You have to raise a 25ft ladder up rung by rung up the wall, then move over to another extension ladder and raise the extension all the way up and all the way down.
Walk 85ft
Station five is the forced entry station. You must take a 12lbs sledgehammer and hit this plate thing until the buzzer goes off (this is when I really started getting tired)
walk 85ft
Station six is the maze crawl. Which is exactly that... you have to crawl through a pitch black maze with obstacles in it.
Walk 85ft
Station seven is the dummy drag. You must drag the 165lbs dummy by the harness handles down 45ft, around a barrel and back. (Im totally miserable now)
walk 85ft
The eighth and final station is the breach and pull. You must take a pike pole (long pole with a point and a hook) and you have to push up three times on a weighted panel and pull down five times on a weighted bar. That is repeated four times. I was so gassed at this point....starting to see spots and shit. That vest just worked me. To be considered passing a candidate must complete the entire test in under 10:20sec.
What was my time you ask?????
Oh, you know, 10:17. :)
Im even extra excited because I found out today that if I happened to get hurt and cannot take the test next time I will be able to use this time even though it was a practice CPAT. I was happy to hear this because flag football starts in a few weeks and I was really paranoid about getting hurt playing while in school. Now no worries!!
".....Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I gotta say it was a good day"
Love.
I hope everyone is doing well.
My week is has been really good. Long as usual but really good. I think I finally got Reese feeling better. I took her to the vet...which sucked super hard. They didnt really tell me anything and Reese was a total psycho-spaz the whole time we were there. They gave her some dewormer to be safe and then bent us over with the bill. She wasn't eating her puppy food...only a few bites all day so I think she ended up vomiting early in the mornings from her stomach churning around on itself. I took her off the puppy food and promoted her to a natural adult dog food for dogs with sensitive stomachs. She ate that shit right up and seems to be doing much better....and just in time, I couldn't handle her hurling every morning at 3am anymore.
A good week so far at school as well...academically I'm am still holding strong...averaging like 97% on my quizzes I think. And although our quizzes are really easy its still nice to ball out on them. Monday we had to do our first PT assessment. It consisted of a timed mile and a half run, push ups and sit ups. We ran the mile and a half on the track; which when your legs are as short as mine is total torture but I will take 6 track laps outside over 18 laps inside our academy building. We are required to pass the run in under 13 minutes so I was pretty stoked when I crushed that time finishing in 11:27... and I dont know if you have ever seen a midget run but 11:27 is a pretty solid time. (and better than quite a few of the boys) After the run we went back to the gym to do out push ups and sit ups. We had a minute to do as many push ups as possible, the same with sit ups. The boys had to do their push ups down enough for their chest to touch to a persons fist who was placed under them... us chickies had to do them down enough for our chin to touch a fist on the ground (not that my boobs are big enough to create an advantage lol) We only had to do 35 to be considered passing so I wasn't worried about it. I smoked out 64... my PT instructor made a huge deal about it... mostly to make the guys who could only do 15 (yeah we actually had a guy only do 15) look stupid. Sit ups were cake... Im not even sure how many I did.. enough to pass. SO... long story long monday was good, I was really happy to start my week that way.
Tuesday was EMT class. BORING. Thats all about that.
Our first CPAT was today. I was pretty pumped about doing it so I was bright eyed and bushy tailed at 5am. Get to school all ready to own it, only to find out that the gym was taken and we would have to wait until after 1 o'clock. Awesome. I had to help proctor the rest of the class member's tests which gave me another 3 hours to watch them all go through it...watching some of the guys struggle was slowing draining my confidence. The two other girls in my class went before me, neither one of them passed...great. So then its finally my turn to go. My instructor reminds me Im the class president and I need to represent (thanks for the added pressure, because the pressure from myself and classmates wasnt enough) I will try to explain this test as well as possible without writing a novel.
Station one is a 3:20sec walk on the stair stepper while wearing a 50lbs weighted vest and 25lbs of added weight. (this was a LONG three and half minutes) then the 25lbs of added weight are removed and you complete the remainder of the test with the 50lbs vest on.
Between every station you must walk 85ft
Station two is the hose drag. You must grab the nozzle and hose (150ft of hose) over your shoulder, and run down and around the barrel. Then you have to take a knee and pull, hand over hand, another 50ft of hose.
Walk 85ft
Station three you have to pick up a chain saw and rotary saw from a shelf and carry it down around the barrel and put them back on the shelf.
Walk 85ft
Station four is the ladder raise. You have to raise a 25ft ladder up rung by rung up the wall, then move over to another extension ladder and raise the extension all the way up and all the way down.
Walk 85ft
Station five is the forced entry station. You must take a 12lbs sledgehammer and hit this plate thing until the buzzer goes off (this is when I really started getting tired)
walk 85ft
Station six is the maze crawl. Which is exactly that... you have to crawl through a pitch black maze with obstacles in it.
Walk 85ft
Station seven is the dummy drag. You must drag the 165lbs dummy by the harness handles down 45ft, around a barrel and back. (Im totally miserable now)
walk 85ft
The eighth and final station is the breach and pull. You must take a pike pole (long pole with a point and a hook) and you have to push up three times on a weighted panel and pull down five times on a weighted bar. That is repeated four times. I was so gassed at this point....starting to see spots and shit. That vest just worked me. To be considered passing a candidate must complete the entire test in under 10:20sec.
What was my time you ask?????
Oh, you know, 10:17. :)
Im even extra excited because I found out today that if I happened to get hurt and cannot take the test next time I will be able to use this time even though it was a practice CPAT. I was happy to hear this because flag football starts in a few weeks and I was really paranoid about getting hurt playing while in school. Now no worries!!
".....Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I gotta say it was a good day"
Love.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
murderous rampage
I would first like to start this post by saying holler!!!! tomorrow is Friday!!! I couldn't be happier (sigh)
Its been such a long week.... If you recall I spent all last weekend studying for my 2 quizzes Monday and first big EMT test Tuesday. Well my labor intensive weekend paid off with the murder of all three. 90%,100%, and 112% respectively. So it goes without saying that I am pretty happy.
Monday we had our first real practical skills day... hose loading, hose rolling, air packs, ropes. Pretty nice since after our quizzes we were in the gym working on those things the rest of the day... faarrrr better than sitting in lecture for 8 hours.We had our first female instructor Monday as well which was great for me to finally have someone to give me girly pointers...about my hair and being smaller and stuff...she was awesome. One of my instructors pulled me aside after class Monday and told me how good of a job I was doing and told me that myself and the other little tiny girl in my class are the best at PT. He said he is confident we will pass our physical agility test but that he wants to give us some help on some of the skills we may have trouble with due to our size. So next week we will have our first practice CPAT (candidate physical agility test)....Im excited to see how I do.
Yesterday we worked on ladder drills. Lifting, carrying, climbing, rescues, etc. We had a grand old time filled with inappropriate jokes surrounding the butt man (the firefighter who stands under the ladder for stabilization). I carried a grown man down a 16 foot ladder twice. It was pretty entertaining. The first of the two rescue carries involves the victim (grown man) facing outward at the top of the ladder with the rescuer (me) climbing up to said victim. I put my arms under his armpits and then have him sit on my knee that I have between his legs. So the idea is that you hold the victim up with your arms, move your foot down to the next ladder rung and then slide them down onto your knee. This was quite entertaining because my victim was a decent sized guy and I was grinding my knee around in his crotch...hard not to laugh the whole way down. That carry is actually pretty difficult for me though because the distance between my arms and knees is pretty short... the second carry is easier. It begins the same with the grown man victim facing outward at the top and little ole' me climbing up to face him. I stick my arm between his legs and grasp the ladder behind him on one side and put my other arm under his armpit. He then swings both legs off to the side of the ladder to where I am kinda cradling him like a baby. The guy I performed this rescue on is like 5'10'' probably 160-165lbs...he looked nervous lol. But I totally killed it and he was smiling and telling everyone how strong I am by the time we got down. Pretty good feeling :)
We had our CPR training class today which wasn't as boring as I expected and now I can give you basic life saving if necessary (and as long as you don't have any communicable diseases ;) As I stated earlier tomorrow is Friday!!! I'm excited to have a couple days "off" even though there is some studying that will need to be done. Out tomorrow night for Kenny's birthday and out saturday for Jen's birthday... Im a broke college student right now so going out doesn't have quite the same meaning as it usually does but I'm still totally stoked to see my friends. I miss everyone so much while I'm trapped on this island (Liberty,mo)
I hope you all had good weeks as well!!!! Keep on keepin on.....
Love
Its been such a long week.... If you recall I spent all last weekend studying for my 2 quizzes Monday and first big EMT test Tuesday. Well my labor intensive weekend paid off with the murder of all three. 90%,100%, and 112% respectively. So it goes without saying that I am pretty happy.
Monday we had our first real practical skills day... hose loading, hose rolling, air packs, ropes. Pretty nice since after our quizzes we were in the gym working on those things the rest of the day... faarrrr better than sitting in lecture for 8 hours.We had our first female instructor Monday as well which was great for me to finally have someone to give me girly pointers...about my hair and being smaller and stuff...she was awesome. One of my instructors pulled me aside after class Monday and told me how good of a job I was doing and told me that myself and the other little tiny girl in my class are the best at PT. He said he is confident we will pass our physical agility test but that he wants to give us some help on some of the skills we may have trouble with due to our size. So next week we will have our first practice CPAT (candidate physical agility test)....Im excited to see how I do.
Yesterday we worked on ladder drills. Lifting, carrying, climbing, rescues, etc. We had a grand old time filled with inappropriate jokes surrounding the butt man (the firefighter who stands under the ladder for stabilization). I carried a grown man down a 16 foot ladder twice. It was pretty entertaining. The first of the two rescue carries involves the victim (grown man) facing outward at the top of the ladder with the rescuer (me) climbing up to said victim. I put my arms under his armpits and then have him sit on my knee that I have between his legs. So the idea is that you hold the victim up with your arms, move your foot down to the next ladder rung and then slide them down onto your knee. This was quite entertaining because my victim was a decent sized guy and I was grinding my knee around in his crotch...hard not to laugh the whole way down. That carry is actually pretty difficult for me though because the distance between my arms and knees is pretty short... the second carry is easier. It begins the same with the grown man victim facing outward at the top and little ole' me climbing up to face him. I stick my arm between his legs and grasp the ladder behind him on one side and put my other arm under his armpit. He then swings both legs off to the side of the ladder to where I am kinda cradling him like a baby. The guy I performed this rescue on is like 5'10'' probably 160-165lbs...he looked nervous lol. But I totally killed it and he was smiling and telling everyone how strong I am by the time we got down. Pretty good feeling :)
We had our CPR training class today which wasn't as boring as I expected and now I can give you basic life saving if necessary (and as long as you don't have any communicable diseases ;) As I stated earlier tomorrow is Friday!!! I'm excited to have a couple days "off" even though there is some studying that will need to be done. Out tomorrow night for Kenny's birthday and out saturday for Jen's birthday... Im a broke college student right now so going out doesn't have quite the same meaning as it usually does but I'm still totally stoked to see my friends. I miss everyone so much while I'm trapped on this island (Liberty,mo)
I hope you all had good weeks as well!!!! Keep on keepin on.....
Love
Sunday, February 6, 2011
a notion of sorts
Call a rant or whatever, I dont care.
Far too often in my life I am surprised by people when I shouldn't be. I am rarely wrong about people and their character... maybe thats good, maybe not so much. Im not sure why I continue to insist people are not as they seem when I am proven time and time again that people are exactly as they seem. Maybe its my terribly naive optimism, maybe its me not wanting to see the cold truth.
Or perhaps its just me. Perhaps my perception of everyone is some insanely skewed, clouded version of them. Am I too generous?? Too generous with my feelings?? Too generous with my effort? Im finding myself totally lost within myself and who I should be. Most people totally suck so do I continue to give to people who have little to no concern for me? I go out of my way everyday for someone...friend, a family member, a stranger.... that is not to say I do anything for anyone in order to get something in return. Thats not the case. I know I have things to offer people, whether its family or friends or strangers and I like doing things for people. I am just starting to wonder about karma... does what go around really come around??? And if i does then why do I keep finding myself covered in dirt?? do I just accept the fact that maybe Im the anomaly? Do I lower my expectations?
I dont feel like I should have to. Maybe everyone else should stop sucking. Maybe I will lower my expectations of other people and leave my expectations for myself high. That way when I am surprised by people surpassing my expectations for them it will be a pleasant surprise. Yeah, I like that idea... assume you are shitty and then when you turn out not to be it will be a nice surprise.
I hate that I have taken on such a pessimistic approach. Its just not my style to rock a dark cloud instead of the sunshine but I am forced to rely on my experience and the fact the history usually repeats itself. I know I will shake it... probably when the actual sun comes out lol...I could use a good run in the sun, its always my best therapy.
Anyway...rant complete. I feel better.
Superbowl sunday ya'll!! Enjoy it. Im trying to. Studying most of the day... two quizzes tomorrow and my first big test tuesday. Im thinkin I'll study until 4 and go to Rusty's for a little while to get out of the house and see my bitches, I miss them dearly and could use some friend time.
Love
Far too often in my life I am surprised by people when I shouldn't be. I am rarely wrong about people and their character... maybe thats good, maybe not so much. Im not sure why I continue to insist people are not as they seem when I am proven time and time again that people are exactly as they seem. Maybe its my terribly naive optimism, maybe its me not wanting to see the cold truth.
Or perhaps its just me. Perhaps my perception of everyone is some insanely skewed, clouded version of them. Am I too generous?? Too generous with my feelings?? Too generous with my effort? Im finding myself totally lost within myself and who I should be. Most people totally suck so do I continue to give to people who have little to no concern for me? I go out of my way everyday for someone...friend, a family member, a stranger.... that is not to say I do anything for anyone in order to get something in return. Thats not the case. I know I have things to offer people, whether its family or friends or strangers and I like doing things for people. I am just starting to wonder about karma... does what go around really come around??? And if i does then why do I keep finding myself covered in dirt?? do I just accept the fact that maybe Im the anomaly? Do I lower my expectations?
I dont feel like I should have to. Maybe everyone else should stop sucking. Maybe I will lower my expectations of other people and leave my expectations for myself high. That way when I am surprised by people surpassing my expectations for them it will be a pleasant surprise. Yeah, I like that idea... assume you are shitty and then when you turn out not to be it will be a nice surprise.
I hate that I have taken on such a pessimistic approach. Its just not my style to rock a dark cloud instead of the sunshine but I am forced to rely on my experience and the fact the history usually repeats itself. I know I will shake it... probably when the actual sun comes out lol...I could use a good run in the sun, its always my best therapy.
Anyway...rant complete. I feel better.
Superbowl sunday ya'll!! Enjoy it. Im trying to. Studying most of the day... two quizzes tomorrow and my first big test tuesday. Im thinkin I'll study until 4 and go to Rusty's for a little while to get out of the house and see my bitches, I miss them dearly and could use some friend time.
Love
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Snowy Boredom
Im on my second snow day in a row... Its nice not waking up at 5am but its been a long time since I sat at home for two days. Yes I know I could have gotten tons of studying done but I have been having a really hard time getting motivated. These days off have gotten me out of my studying rhythm.
p.s. I wasnt intentionally flipping my dad off while he took that picture...just happened to come out that way :)
So since my last post....lets see.... I didnt do much of anything over the weekend. Reese was sick, waking up early in the morning vomiting since friday. So I stayed home to keep an eye on her, I think she is feeling better now though. Monday we had class as usual... lecture about ethics in the fire service which was more interesting than I expected. We also got all our bunker gear on and did a little drill in the gym. We got into our squads and had to pull out three down firefighters that were in the mens locker room. All the lights were out so it was pitch black and we were not allowed to stand up. The goal was to simulate what its like inside a fire.The gear is so hot, I cannot imagine how hot it will be once we get to the burn tower and are actually in a fire.
We lost our first classmate on monday also, this particular recruit was struggling both physically and the chief advised them it would be in their best interest to drop and get there money back. I had a nice talk with chief and he was very complimentary about how well I was doing which was a nice confidence boost. I also discussed with him about a possible change in the class vice president who I dont mesh with all too well. (and by not mesh I mean if I had to choose between running razor blades under my fingernails or having dinner with him I would take the blades.) So Im hopeful that situation will be remedied by the week's end. We were released from school early Monday due to the ice developing and then snowmageddon hit and I felt like a 4th grader again rifling through news channels to find my school on the ticker. Snow days are great but they are having an adverse effect on my ass... Im SO guilty of boredom eating. It wouldnt be so bad if I could go running but clearly thats not an option. Tony got a new truck and he was itching to take it out so he, Cristin and Layne make the trip up to liberty and freed me from my snowy prison. We found the one open bar in liberty and posted up for happy hour. It was so nice to get out and have some human contact that I desperately needed. Inebriation soon followed since I dont drink a ton anymore but I knew school was cancelled today so I gave myself the night too have fun. Nothing too crazy anyway...home by 9:30 in bed by 10.
Back on the grind today as I am going to force myself to read some and get back in my academy ass kicking flow. Thank you all for all the support, it really means a lot. Oh, and a special thanks to ang and kp for my awesome care package! p.s. I wasnt intentionally flipping my dad off while he took that picture...just happened to come out that way :)
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